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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, anthony@codemonkey.ws,
	jesse.barnes@intel.com, david.woodhouse@intel.com,
	mark.gross@intel.com, Ben-Ami Yassour1 <BENAMI@il.ibm.com>,
	weidong.han@intel.com
Subject: Re: VT-d support for device assignment
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:50:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080823095025.GA6942@il.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48AFD97A.30309@qumranet.com>

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:33:46PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:

> So long as there is no potential for performance or security impact,
> having pvdma turned on automatically is better.  We could still have
> dma=noparavirt to disable it.

pvdma has advantages and disadvantages. It has a significant
performance impact (compared to direct map) but it also let us avoid
pinning all of the guest's memory. I this this should be a guest
decision whether to use it or not, so 'dma=noparavirt' to disable it
seems reasonable.

Cheers,
Muli
-- 
Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08)
Co-located with OSDI '08, Dec 2008, San Diego, CA
http://www.usenix.org/wiov08

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-23  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-22  7:10 VT-d support for device assignment Amit Shah
2008-08-22  7:10 ` [PATCH] VT-d: changes to support KVM Amit Shah
2008-08-22  7:10   ` [PATCH] KVM: Device Assignment with VT-d Amit Shah
2008-08-23 16:21   ` [PATCH] VT-d: changes to support KVM Jesse Barnes
2008-08-22 13:54 ` VT-d support for device assignment Byron Stanoszek
2008-08-22 15:32   ` Amit Shah
2008-08-22 18:29     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-08-22 18:37       ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-22 19:09         ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-08-22 16:08   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-08-22 18:12     ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-22 18:23       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-08-22 18:21 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-22 18:28   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-08-23  9:12   ` Amit Shah
2008-08-23  9:33     ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-23  9:49       ` Amit Shah
2008-08-24 10:01         ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-23  9:50       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2008-08-23  9:55         ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-08-24 10:02         ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-23  9:57 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-08-23 10:25   ` Amit Shah
2008-08-23 10:40     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-08-23 11:11       ` Amit Shah
2008-08-23 12:11         ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-08-23 14:01           ` Amit Shah
2008-09-01 13:08 ` Joerg Roedel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-09 15:37 Amit Shah
2008-09-14  0:46 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 18:57   ` Jesse Barnes
2008-09-09 14:44 Amit Shah
2008-09-09 13:50 Han, Weidong
2008-08-26  8:55 Amit Shah
2008-08-26  9:10 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-26 14:11   ` Amit Shah
2008-08-26 14:38     ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-21 11:10 Ben-Ami Yassour

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